Overview
Graduate Research Highlights is a cross-disciplinary graduate student presentation series. We provide light refreshments, and you are invited to bring your lunch and join us in person for a set of student research talks.
Each group of talks is connected to a broad theme, though the speakers come from different departments and disciplines. The goal of Graduate Research Highlights is to provide an opportunity for you to talk about your academic work in way that will build your capacity to communicate in multidisciplinary spaces and reach an academic audience outside of your department.
All members of the U of T community are welcome to attend. Following each Graduate Research Highlights Session, we also open Grad Room as a quiet co-working space for the afternoon.
Interested in presenting? Our next call for speakers will go out via Gradschool e-news in summer 2026.
Events
Research as Craft & Process
Ayla Morland, PhD student, Faculty of Information
Collectivist Individualism: American Exceptionalism in Improvised Music
Dylan Pilcher, MMus student, Faculty of Music
Political Songs and the Public Sphere in the French Revolution
Anthony K. Popov, MA student, Department of History
This event takes place in person at Grad Room (66 Harbord) on Wed, March 11, 1–2 p.m.
Title TBC
Jawwad Qureshi, MEnvSc student, Department of Physical & Environmental Sciences
Driving Tourism: Automobile Infrastructure in Banff National Park, 1910-1930
Owen Van Vliet, MA student, Department of History
This event takes place in person at Grad Room (66 Harbord) on Tues, March 31, 1–2 p.m.
LSD to treat epilepsy? How LSD modulates behavioural seizures and neural oscillatory rhythms
Brenden Rabinovitch, PhD student, Department of Physiology
From Sierra to City: Urban Migration and Sleep in Mexico’s Indigenous Wixárika Communities
Leela McKinnon, PhD student, Department of Anthropology
Psychedelic microdosing: Real-world practices and placebo-controlled evidence
Omer A. Syed, PhD student, Institute of Medical Science
This event takes place in person at Grad Room (66 Harbord) on Tues, April 14, 1–2 p.m.